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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Posts Tagged ‘Prescott’

Revising our relationships

Ellen Greenblum, Raising Arizona Kids Magazine guest writer, Empty Nest, Phoenix, Arizona

I talk on the phone to my mother, who lives in Florida, two to three times each week. She asks me how the weather is, what I’m making for dinner, how close I am to any fires in Arizona, if my boyfriend has taken me out lately and where we went. She wants to know [...]

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Museum Day Live!

Excavation activity at Pueblo Grande Museum in Phoenix. Photo courtesy of the museum.

Museums and cultural institutions across Arizona will offer free admission for two people per household during Museum Day Live! Saturday, Sept. 29. Tickets are available now. The event is designed to emulate the free admission policy of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and is taking place at more than 1,400 museums and cultural centers [...]

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Feelin’ folksy

These girls enjoyed dressing in period garb during the Prescott Folk Art Fair

Families panning for gold. Kids making corn husk dolls. Folks touring an old one room school house. Women donning garb from territorial times. It’s all part of Prescott’s Folk Art Fair, taking place this weekend on the Sharlot Hall Museum campus — home to all sorts of log cabins, the Blue Rose Theatersporting a casual [...]

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Fun with folk arts

Children making candles at last year's Folks Arts Fair in Prescott. Photo courtesy of the Sharlot Hall Museum.

Kids getting a bit restless? World beyond your house feeling a tad too warm? Wishing you’d spent the long weekend traveling instead of tackling chores? The fine folks in Prescott have a little something to take your mind off such troubles – the 39th annual Folk Arts Fair “Village of Traditions” taking place this weekend [...]

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Christmas City, AZ

The Yavapai County Courthouse decorated for the holidays. Photo by David Rout/Flickr.com

I didn’t know this until today, but Prescott is Arizona’s Christmas City as designated by Gov. Rose Mofford in 1989. If you look on this City of Prescott website you’ll see plenty of Christmas-y elements this time of year, including the “world’s largest gingerbread village.” What really adds to Prescott’s charm is the courthouse square with [...]

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Roses are blue…

Lynn Trimble is wishing she could send a couple of texting teens to Prescott for a series of living history workshops on essentials like mending and parlor arts, and sharing details of the 2012 season for the Blue Rose Theater at the Sharlot Hall Museum.

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Supporting women playwrights

As a pair of Pandoras make their way to Valley stages this weekend, Lynn Trimble spotlights the Arizona Women’s Theatre Company’s “Pandora Showcase” featuring fully-staged contemporary works performed at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.

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Crepes and creativity

Lynn Trimble shares reflections and photos from an unexpected trip to Flagstaff with daughter Lizabeth and a few of her friends, taken just days before Lizabeth left for her first year of college in New York City.

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Theater camp can change a life

Lynn Trimble talks with an ASU student who hopes to “travel the world and dance across it” about her early arts experiences, her dreams for the future and the role a Valley theater camp played in sparking her true passion. Trimble also shares a companion post with links to more than 30 Valley organizations offering theater camps.

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